Category: Women

A meme on some of the choicest female characters from the literary world. This was originally for The Banyan Trees March issue but I couldn’t make the deadline last week. So here it is, and it’s not exactly complete. I couldn’t find time to think of more.(This was extra. The regular column in The Banyan… Continue reading My Fair Lady

Jim, that’s not the way to do it, Jim. I am not sure what they get out of it, is it peace of mind, dissolution of responsibilities, or plain sadistic pleasure in passing down the injustice that was meted out to you a few decades ago. I see it happening everywhere, Jim. It is sad… Continue reading The New Female Infanticide

Not until someone played this song during dinner and remarked about the second stanza, that I realized the double entendre behind it. It is not really double entendre, and could very well be the intended meaning. But I had never concentrated much on this part of the song. It goes something like this: kanni ponna… Continue reading Raja Kaiya Vecha…

Stephanie Rice won her third Gold at Beijing. And she is total lakshanam only! The 20 year old looks stunningly divine. I wonder what new readers will think seeing two consecutive posts under the Women category. :|

Remember Aditi? Aditi was not the hottest looking girl. She wasn’t exactly hot. She was what defined that thin line between being sexy and being beautiful. She was beautiful. Not very fair. Not the wheatish of matrimonial fame. The green eyes, the done eyebrows and colored hair to go with a face that was so… Continue reading This is a Story of a Girl

Ana Ivanovic She is lovely, isn’t she? She is just totally amazing. She plays too well, and she looks so hot. Actually, she is not hot. She is beautiful. There is this thin line in between, you see. She has that, what you call in Tamil, “lakshanam” or whatever. If you tell a Tam Brahm… Continue reading B-E-A-utiful

So Ok tags me and does my mom a huge favor. One of those cranky senti posts on this blog made her ask me a few questions. On a GTalk call. And I told her, I’ll tell you in good time. She said ok. So here she goes, this is for her. I am sure… Continue reading Crushes!